Could you disable tables (heh) for non-admins? Or are we getting way too complex here?
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Michele T. - Nov 17, 2002 4:21:34 pm PST #1561 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2002 4:25:24 pm PST #1562 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nope. Most of my tables are assembled from other sources (either by hand, or from Excel) so there's not really any linkage.
Of course, if I'm the only one using them ... that's not a good enough reason to keep them.
Hil, and we'd also need to count the single quotes. Problem being, i think you can legally nest a single " inside ' ', and vice versa.
Noumenon - Nov 17, 2002 4:37:19 pm PST #1563 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
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John H - Nov 17, 2002 4:45:31 pm PST #1564 of 10000
you can legally nest a single " inside ' ', and vice versa
Definitely, more than one. Though really, you should use the entities which are ' and " or whatever.
The really scary thing for an HTML parser?
The fact that it's legal to have a tag like this:
<img src="a-is-bigger-than-b.gif" alt="a > b">
Hil R. - Nov 17, 2002 5:36:51 pm PST #1565 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think I thought of something. When you've got an opening bracket, start scanning the rest of the post. You're looking for a quote of some sort or an opening or closing bracket. If you get to an opening bracket, that's an error. If you get to a quote, then just look for another of those quotes, and ignore everything else you come across until you find it. Then start looking for any quote or bracket again. If you find a closing bracket, you're done. If you get to the end of the post while you're still looking for anything, that's an error. If there's an error, bring up an edit page that just has the text box at the bottom, no post at the top, and tell the poster to fix it before posting. Would that work? (Does that even make any sense, or do I need to find some better way of explaining it?)
Jon B. - Nov 17, 2002 5:44:55 pm PST #1566 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The edit link *did* work, Jon. It's that the edit form was broken by the bad HTML.
Ahhh, got it. I just tried to edit it and I see what you mean. The problem is that the opening FORM tag appears after the broken post. In this case, the FORM tag appeared before a second ' (single quote) which caused it to become a part of the messed-up "a href" tag.
There's an easy fix to make sure this particular mess doesn't happen again --- move the opening FORM tag so that it appears before the post. I just tried it and it worked great. Would you like me to put this revised version in test? None of my other mods use editpost.php so this would be completely independent of those.
Also, put me in the "we should disallow table tags" column. ita - like Noumenon said, you could always post your nifty table-ized statistics somewhere else and link to them.
Noumenon - Nov 17, 2002 6:42:20 pm PST #1567 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Also, put me in the "we should disallow table tags" column.
But without table tags, there wouldn't be any columns...!
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2002 6:42:33 pm PST #1568 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
ita - like Noumenon said, you could always post your nifty table-ized statistics somewhere else and link to them.
Yeah, but no. I'm not using someone else's server space for that. They'll just have to be not posted.
Please fix editpost, Jon, and deletepost too.
Jon B. - Nov 17, 2002 6:53:39 pm PST #1569 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Please fix editpost, Jon, and deletepost too.
Done.
I'm not using someone else's server space for that.
Don't you have your own server space?
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2002 7:08:26 pm PST #1570 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't you have your own server space?
Yup, but I want my posts to have the same lifetime as the board, not as some other site -- I've already accumulated directories full of stuff I think I put there to link to from somewhere else, and it's messy.
As I said, I'll just stop.
For the record, there are 23 posts that use a table tag -- half of those are mine, the rest posted by Jess, Jon, John, billytea and Dani.